Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named after the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly offer sponsorship to good causes.
Many West Country communities be aware of name George Pulman well. He could be considered something of your Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands stayed an abundant news source for over 150 year through the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for the reliability and trustworthiness. That which was created by Pulman’s journalists could possibly be regarded as being true.
What folks may not know is that George Pulman have also been an ongoing committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To assist rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically take part in the church organ with a Sunday morning. There he took the meet and marry his young wife, who had previously been likewise drawn to become a regular part of the identical Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he supported the significance of building community: through Church, rural life and local news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to many West Country causes and concerns which may otherwise happen to be restarted and forgotten.
Journalism was obviously a task that required the most responsibility and was a career addressed with great respect.
So in a today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to remember fondly the values of a single of the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male of faith who built a regional media empire in the wake with the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, that is the current managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary continues to uphold the identical values of George Pulman and is also open for nominations all through the year.”
The bursary prize has created donations during the past Twelve months on the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association as well as the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books for your elderly and partially sighted.
Lately the Pulman’s Award aids fund the publication of the number of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses built to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back within the community.
Numerous leaflets and booklets are also distributed across the West Country to help you enlighten young adults concerning the hazards of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in every its many forms, continues to be as relevant today in just the same manner it was when George Pulman was alive.
It possesses a great capability to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – may make our universe an improved place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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